Finn taped it to the refrigerator beside a spelling test he had aced.

Gloria didn’t say anything when she noticed it.

She just added a magnet to keep the corners from curling.

Those letters made me rethink the night I first walked into the house.

Dwight’s sons had seemed careless and amused, and I had been ready to hate them for it.

They had learned how to survive from the same man who hurt my boy.

That didn’t excuse what they said, but it changed how I thought about the responsibility of the grown-ups in that room.